Ban Code Elegance

Am beginning to think, elegance of code should be ban'd. Because, often, they make code slower, harder to understand, and also far more time consuming to create.

It's like artwork. Often, they serve no everyday value. Prime example is modern geometric furniture.

However, a society where concept of code elegance doesn't exist, then code quality will suffer in general. It'd be like a society sans notion of beauty.

what should be done, is that code elegance should become a branch of math. Like, groups represented by generators and relations. So that, code elegance becomes precisely defined, and part of representation theory. Just as complexity theory is the study of algorithms.

2018-03-24

Patterns mean “I have run out of language.” — #clojure inventor Rich Hickey

start to post to patreon again

for paid audience. It's better that way, increases my quality, with a goal.

the problem just blogging or posting to twitter, is that, nobody really cares. With patreon post, there's a goal, similar to commercial org. You write, if it's good, people pay. When no good, people stop.

And comments tends to be more valuable. It has a basis.

20 years of open source, has eliminated the power of individuals. Instead, you get these “we support opensource” mega corps like google and Facebook. The programers, by day work for these greed, by night sing open source, put to git, wipe out bread of small programers.